English > hydrophyte: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | A plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus / lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth. |
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| Synonyms | aquatic plant, water plant, hydrophytic plant |
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| Parts | pad | The large floating leaf of an aquatic plant (as the water lily) |
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| Narrower | American frogbit, Limnodium spongia | American plant with roundish heart-shaped or kidney-shaped leaves |
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| arrow arum | An aquatic plant of the genus Peltandra |
| awlwort, Subularia aquatica | small aquatic plant having tufted awl-shaped leaves in a basal rosette and minute white flowers |
| cryptocoryne, water trumpet | Any plant of the genus Cryptocoryne |
| duckweed | Any small or minute aquatic plant of the family Lemnaceae that float on or near the surface of shallow ponds |
| eelgrass, grass wrack, sea wrack, Zostera marina | submerged marine plant with very long narrow leaves found in abundance along North Atlantic coasts |
| featherfoil, feather-foil | A plant of the genus Hottonia |
| frogbit, frog's-bit, Hydrocharis morsus-ranae | European floating plant with roundish heart-shaped leaves and white flowers |
| golden club, Orontium aquaticum | aquatic plant of the southeastern United States having blue-green leaves and a spadix resembling a club covered with tiny yellow flowers |
| golden saxifrage, golden spleen | Any of various low aquatic herbs of the genus Chrysosplenium |
| hornwort | Any aquatic plant of the genus Ceratophyllum |
| hydrilla, Hydrilla verticillata | submersed plant with whorled lanceolate leaves and solitary axillary flowers |
| marsh plant, bog plant, swamp plant | A semiaquatic plant that grows in soft wet land |
| naiad, water nymph | submerged aquatic plant having narrow leaves and small flowers |
| pickerelweed, pickerel weed, wampee, Pontederia cordata | American plant having spikes of blue flowers and growing in shallow water of streams and ponds |
| pipewort, Eriocaulon aquaticum | aquatic perennial of North America and Ireland and Hebrides having translucent green leaves in a basal spiral and dense buttonlike racemes of minute white flowers |
| pistia, water lettuce, water cabbage, Pistia stratiotes, Pistia stratoites | pantropical floating plant forming a rosette of wedge-shaped leaves |
| pondweed | Any of several submerged or floating freshwater perennial aquatic weeds belonging to the family Potamogetonaceae |
| tape grass, eelgrass, wild celery, Vallisneria spiralis | submerged aquatic plant with ribbonlike leaves |
| water chestnut, water chestnut plant, caltrop | A plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits |
| water crowfoot, water buttercup, Ranunculus aquatilis | plant of ponds and slow streams having submerged and floating leaves and white flowers |
| water hyacinth, water orchid, Eichhornia crassipes, Eichhornia spesiosa | A tropical floating aquatic plant having spikes of large blue flowers |
| water lily | An aquatic plant of the family Nymphaeaceae |
| water milfoil | An aquatic plant of the genus Myriophyllum having feathery underwater leaves and small inconspicuous flowers |
| water pimpernel | A white-flowered aquatic plant of the genus Samolus |
| water shamrock, buckbean, bogbean, bog myrtle, marsh trefoil, Menyanthes trifoliata | perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves |
| water speedwell, Veronica michauxii, Veronica anagallis-aquatica | plant of wet places in Eurasia and America |
| water star grass, mud plantain, Heteranthera dubia | grassy-leaved North American aquatic plant with yellow star-shaped blossoms |
| water starwort | Any of several aquatic plants having a star-shaped rosette of floating leaves |
| waterweed | A weedy aquatic plant of genus Elodea |
| Broader | vascular plant, tracheophyte | green plant having a vascular system |
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| Spanish | hidrófito, planta acuática |
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| Catalan | hidròfit, planta aquàtica |
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| Adjectives | hydrophytic | growing wholly or partially in water |
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